Time Stands Still
Donald Margulies
26 September – 17 October
Director:
Lara Macgregor
Featuring:
Jacque Drew
As Sarah Goodwin
Jacque is an American actor who has been living in New Zealand for the last decade. Currently residing in Auckland, she has appeared onstage in Twelfth Night (Maria) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Mae) for Auckland Theatre Company; The Women (Edith), Suddenly Last Summer (Violet Venable) and Some Girls (Sam) for Silo Theatre Company; and Abigail's Party (Susan), Cloud 9 (Edward and Betty) and The Vagina Monologues (multiple roles) at The Basement Theatre.
She has appeared on NZ television in Shortland Street, Interrogation, How Women Got the Vote, The Jaquie Brown Diaries; and will appear in the upcoming season of The Brokenwood Mysteries.
Jacque is married to actor, Jeff Szusterman. The last time she appeared at The Fortune Theatre was in a play directed by him, called My First Time. Jacque and Jeff are the parents of a delightful 5 year-old named Olivia, who arrived in their lives 9 months after they last worked at The Fortune.
Peter Hayden
As Richard Ehrlich
Peter Hayden has somehow managed to divide much of his life working between his twin passions of drama and documentary. He has spent many years in Dunedin with NHNZ, producing, directing, writing or presenting science and nature documentaries.
His drama career includes recent screen roles in The Light Between the Oceans, Hillary and 800 Words. Earlier roles include The Governor, Close to Home, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, The Fire-Raiser and Illustrious Energy for which he won Best Supporting Actor Award. He starred in road movies Arriving Tuesday and Shaker Run.
His many theatre appearances at the Fortune include: the war veteran comedy Heroes, Calendar Girls and Roger Hall’s Book Ends and Short Cut to Happiness. He also performed in The Truth Game and Tom Scott’s, The Daylight Atheist.
Wellington theatre roles include Short Cut to Happiness and David Hare’s The Vertical Hour at Circa and The Raft by Carl Nixon at Downstage.
Peter has been living in Auckland for the last couple of years where he first appeared at The Basement Theatre in Motel, by April Phillips. In the last eighteen months he has starred in Auckland Theatre Productions: Other Desert Cities, Trees Beneath the Lake, The Ladykillers and Lysistrata.
Peter is delighted to be back in ‘Dunners’ with such a talented cast in this very fine play Time Stands Still. He feels privileged to be working with Lara Macgregor in her final production at the Fortune, which she has led brilliantly over these past 5 years.
Torum Heng
As Mandy Bloom
Torum returned to study in 2012 at The Actors' Program, having graduated in Music Theatre from NASDA in 2007. She made her professional debut in The Producers at The Court Theatre, followed by Anything Goes, both directed by Sandra Rasmussen.
In 2009 she notably played the role of Dinah' in the national tour of Starlight Express with UK's Really Useful Group. She has also performed in a number of Childrens' shows for The Court Theatre, NZ Playhouse, Crash Bash, Imagine Theatre, and most recently for Phineas Phrog Productions.
Torum made her television debut in 2013 as 'Tiana' in South Pacific Pictures' fifth season of Go Girls.
This year Torum wrote and performed her first solo show - KEEP OUT OF MY BOX (and other useful advice) which won both the Best Comedy Show and the NZ Tour Ready Award in the Auckland Fringe Awards.
Torum is super excited to be performing in her first play at Fortune Theatre in Time Stands Still.
Jeff Szusterman
As James Dodd
